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Artificial intelligence featured at MWC with groundbreaking applications for sectors including healthcare and sustainability

2024-03-13T11:22:52+01:00February 23rd, 2024|Fires, ICT, Press Notes|

Cybersecurity-related technologies and virtual reality tied to the user experience, smart cities and digital twins will be prominent at the forthcoming Mobile World Congress, where artificial intelligence will take centre stage with applications in various sectors, especially in health and nutrition, sustainability and industry. Eugenia Fuenmayor, scientific director of Eurecat’s Digital Area, says that [...]

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New biodegradable bioplastics from agri-food waste for high added-value medical applications

2024-03-13T11:20:04+01:00February 22nd, 2024|Health, Plastic material, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The PHASAL project is fashioning new biodegradable bioplastics from agri-food waste for medical applications such as transdermal patches and suture kits which will minimise their environmental impact. Specifically, it is to develop new grades of biodegradable plastics (PHA) obtained from the recovery of organic waste, thus affording them advanced processability and biocompatibility properties, which [...]

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Artificial intelligence technologies can enhance the learning process and help transform the educational model

2024-03-13T11:16:44+01:00February 16th, 2024|ICT, Press Notes|

Artificial intelligence and data technologies have huge potential to help transform the educational model and enhance the teaching and learning process while also ensuring that Catalan is more widely used online and in everyday life in society. This is the conclusion of the ‘White Paper on Artificial Intelligence applied to Education and to the [...]

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eMobility World Congress showcases ultra-thin smart interface for interacting with the new generation of cars

2024-03-13T11:09:12+01:00February 14th, 2024|Automotive, Fires, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has developed a smart plastic surface just 3 millimetres thick which has an interface that allows users to interact and communicate with a machine, software or intuitive system with built-in LED lighting and capacitive sensors which is expected to be embedded in the central electronic control system of the new generation [...]

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Eurecat unveils battery, hydrogen, robotics, new materials and plastronics technologies for sustainable mobility at eMobility World Congress

2024-03-13T11:05:54+01:00February 12th, 2024|Aeronautical, Automotive, Energy, Fires, Press Notes, Railway|

At the eMobility Expo World Congress, which brings together the European mobility industry from 13-15 February in Valencia, the Eurecat technology centre is to unveil its latest-generation technologies and solutions in batteries and electrification, hydrogen, robotics, new lightweight materials, plastronics and artificial intelligence to unlock sustainable mobility. “Eurecat will bring outstanding innovations to businesses to [...]

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Eurecat takes part in European consortium analysing online manipulation threats to combat disinformation

2024-02-20T12:16:16+01:00February 6th, 2024|IT-Security, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the European Athena project which is to develop tools to analyse and combat disinformation and misinformation on the Internet, seen by the World Economic Forum as the greatest global risk over the next two years. The Athena (An exposition on THe forEign informatioN mAnipulation and interference) project is [...]

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New tool optimises acoustics in virtual reality to help people with hearing difficulties join in

2024-02-20T12:14:40+01:00February 1st, 2024|Audiovisual Technologies, Cultural and Creative Industries, Press Notes|

This week at the ISE trade fair in Barcelona, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing a tool for optimising acoustics in virtual reality and audiovisual production which enhances understanding in virtual environments and helps people with hearing difficulties to take part by tapping deep learning algorithms and binaural audio. The innovation, which has been developed [...]

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Eurecat trials an immersive digital reading experience with 3D special effects and music creations

2024-02-20T12:12:50+01:00January 30th, 2024|Audiovisual Technologies, Cultural and Creative Industries, Press Notes|

At ISE 2024, the leading international trade fair for the audiovisual and integrated systems industry, the Eurecat technology centre is presenting a new 3D sound system for audio books which delivers an immersive digital reading experience through narratives enhanced with 3D special effects and music creations. These new media technologies are applied in an innovative [...]

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New Tourism Technology Centres eBook unpacks artificial intelligence’s impact on the tourism industry

2024-02-20T12:10:35+01:00January 30th, 2024|Innovació turística, Press Notes, Tourism|

The eBook “The Tourism Industry Facing the Challenge of AI” brought out by the Tourism Technology Centres group, of which Eurecat is a member, in conjunction with Thinktur unpacks trends in the use and application of artificial intelligence and explores this technology’s impact on tourism. In the eBook, the Eurecat technology centre presents the features of [...]

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Novel lightweight materials to reduce weight of chassis components of Electric Vehicles by 40%

2024-02-08T14:16:09+01:00January 29th, 2024|Automotive, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

Researchers at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the technological centre Eurecat, proposed novel material solutions based on high-strength steels, composites and hybrid materials with the objective to reduce the weight of electric car chassis components by 40%. The research was conducted as part [...]

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